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Musician. She/they. 🏳️‍⚧️ Traumatized, anxious, and depressed - so yes, I’m Jewish

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Tan @gluestick1234.bsky.social · Feb 9

Fuck it. I'm tired of hiding, letting other people dictate how I'm seen.

Here's my story with Ci, the prequel to current events. In some ways, I was the test run. Shit I helped him with in good faith became his tools of manipulation. Things he did to me first got refined and redone. Time to talk.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 15d

In particular, I cannot recommend these three works highly enough:
- Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California
- African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000
- In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990
bookshop.org/beta-search?...

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Tan @gluestick1234.bsky.social · 15d

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Tan @gluestick1234.bsky.social · 15d

It’s the single dumbest part of FFXIV’s story and I love it

Tan @gluestick1234.bsky.social · 15d

Minfillia’s family got rekt by a fucking Goobbue

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Sweet Science, Savage Art @sweetscisavart.bsky.social · Sep 7

The most dangerous thing we can do is to do nothing. Remember, war is upon us whether we would risk it or not.

The Onion @theonion.com · Sep 6

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump adm...

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sen. Baldwin: When RFK Jr. did this mass firing in the CDC, he ended up firing everybody in the childhood lead poisoning division. When Milwaukee public schools had a lead crisis and called the CDC for help, there was no one there to answer the phone. This incompetence has real life consequences

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 5

This story is WILD. Trump sent Seal Team 6 into North Korea to plant a listening device. The entire thing went sideways within minutes of landing when they noticed a fishing boat near the beach. They killed everyone on board, sunk the bodies to cover their tracks, and fled. Congress was never told.

If the SEALs were unsure whether the mission had been compromised before they fired, they had no doubt afterward. The plan required the SEALs to abort immediately if they encountered anyone. North Korean security forces could be coming. There was no time to plant the device.

The shore team swam to the boat to make sure that all of the North Koreans were dead. They found no guns or uniforms. Evidence suggested that the crew, which people briefed on the mission said numbered two or three people, had been civilians diving for shellfish. All were dead, including the man in the water.

Officials familiar with the mission said the SEALs pulled the bodies into the water to hide them from the North Korean authorities. One added that the SEALs punctured the boat crew’s lungs with knives to make sure their bodies would sink.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 4

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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Tan @gluestick1234.bsky.social · Sep 4

Same argument as a 6th grade pizza party. Nobody gets a second slice until everyone’s had at least one.

It helps that the Pritzker family is known widely for their philanthropy in the arts and education, too. A bit of a Carnegie library sort of recognition.

Tan @gluestick1234.bsky.social · Sep 4

He’s generally the One Good Billionaire. Not leftist or anything - he wouldn’t be a billionaire - but besides a property tax scandal he’s really not given me a single thing to complain about. Raised min wage, trans rights, reproductive rights, fuck ICE, etc

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K'eeg @armormodekeeg.blacksky.app · Aug 31

all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe

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Jays aka Clovis @clovislives.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.

CivicTracker @civictracker.us · Aug 31

Trump declares intention to issue an Executive Order mandating Voter ID for all votes, restricts mail-in voting to exceptions, and insists on paper ballots only.

Donald J. Trump via Truth Social: Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!! Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military. USE PAPER BALLOTS ONLY!!! President DJT

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That Darn Alekgator! @alekgator.bsky.social · Aug 30

That TF story you commissioned? Account banned.

That vore comic? Banned.

That custom puphood? Banned.

That latex catsuit? Banned.

That fursuit? Furries are called deviants and sexual so... Banned.

You went to a con? A furry one? Banned.

CALL YOUR PAYMENT PROVIDERS!

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · Aug 30

PayPal user in the UK lost their account after buying adult ebooks “about monsters and milking,” “some dubcon stuff”

“My account got banned a couple of days ago for making purchases which violate the ToS. Upon querying w/ staff over the phone I've been told that it was ebooks that I've been buying”

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My account got banned a couple of days ago for making purchases which violate the terms of service.
Upon querying with staff over the phone l've been told that it was e-books that l've been buying.
I'm panicking a little bit right now. I haven't done anything illegal have I? The books were mostly stuff about monsters and milking. Some dub-con stuff.
If it is illegal, what do I need ot do to protect myself? Do I delete my e-books?
If the e-books aren't illegal then is the company really allowed to tell me how I'm allowed to spend my money?
Like, is this any different to Halifax or Nationwide forbidding me from buying cigarettes or alcohol at Tesocs?
I'm in England.
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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · Aug 23

How does an adult verifying their age keep children safe? How does an adult using a VPN make children less safe? Did anyone ask these obvious follow-up questions of the minister here or did they just let it slide?

John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · Aug 21

UK government asks everybody to stop using VPNs.

"everybody who's out there thinking of using VPNs...verifying your age keeps a child safe...So let's just not try and find a way around. Just prove your age."

- UK government

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Aug 22

The craven reactionary centrists at Third Way are advising Democrats not to use the term LGBTQ, BIPOC, allyship, or intersectionality. They're erasing the entire language used to describe minority communities.

www.thirdway.org/memo/was-it-...

The second screenshot is titled "The Shifting Language of Racial Constructs" and explains that using the wrong terminology risks being called racist. It lists:

Latinx

BIPOC

Allyship

Intersectionality

Minoritized communities

The text below says Democrats may be losing support among non-White voters by overusing such terms, urging reflection and listening instead of relying on “sociology buzzwords.”

Alt text: Two screenshots of text discussing language around gender, orientation, and race.

The first screenshot is titled "Gender/Orientation Correctness" and says these terms imply that traditional gender views are outdated. It lists:

Birthing person/inseminated person

Pregnant people

Chest feeding

Cisgender

Deadnaming

Heteronormative

Patriarchy

LGBTQIA+

It concludes with a note that standing up to MAGA’s attacks on gay and transgender people requires empathy and coalition-building, not shaming potential allies.

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Tan @gluestick1234.bsky.social · Aug 22

It’s a fairly dystopian feeling to lose your presentation and friends’ - as a trans person it’s a familiar feeling for no one to know what I want to look like. This dismissal reeks of this same thing - label it as “gooner” and belittle its largely queer userbase

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Tan @gluestick1234.bsky.social · Aug 22

Final Fantasy 14, an MMO, just lost 1 of its most-used mods to a C&D. It let you see other people’s aesthetic mods. It was used by 100Ks of players. Some are already saying it was a “gooner mod” and dismissing anyone who is upset to lose the ability to see each other as we are, regardless of context

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 11

I'll say it again: it's amazing how many Americans who enjoy dystopian science-fiction media are also proving themselves to be 100% on board for signing over most of their cognitive function to technological tools run by sinister, giant corporations.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 8

It really does feel like a lot of formerly reasonable people have been infected by some sort of terrifying brain parasite when it comes to unthinking and total acceptance of using AI tools

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · Aug 7

Absolute worst part, imo, is the pressure from school administrators to "welcome our new overlords" by adopting AI. It's also happening in elite universities, to my utter bafflement & horror. Anyone who calls bullshit on AI is treated as if only ignorance could explain their perspective.

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Cayzzer @cayzzer.bsky.social · Aug 2

This!

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Tan @gluestick1234.bsky.social · Aug 3

Girl who tops (dreidels)

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Haylie Miller @hayliemiller.bsky.social · Jul 27

If you’re from Texas and this doesn’t even remotely surprise you, clap your hands… 👏🏼👏🏼

steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · Feb 19

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account

The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

www.texasobserver.org

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · Jul 27

‪Crew aboard the Handala includes Amazon union organizer Chris Smalls. The ship is attempting to bring much needed food and supplies into Gaza.

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · Jul 24

just going to yell it once more for those in the back- the attacks on universities are *not* separable from the admin's attacks on trans people. university administrators who try to ignore that (👀) are once again failing to grasp the magnitude and scope of the issues at hand

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · Jul 24

Buried in Columbia's agreement/bribe with the Trump regime (and not reported by the news) is a section which agrees to segregate trans women from women's housing, sports, and bathrooms. Functionally, trans women are no longer welcome at Columbia University.

Excerpt from Columbia's agreement/bribe to the Trump Regime:
20. Columbia will uphold its commitment to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 by providing safe and fair opportunities for women including single-sex housing for women who request such housing and all-female sports, locker rooms, and showering facilities.

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Tan @gluestick1234.bsky.social · Jul 17

The way I’ve been told is, think of a megaphone. It’s gotta have a mic for your voice then a bigass speaker to replicate your voice but louder. The mouthpiece/mic doesn’t have to be great. Just the instrument/speaker.

The shape and size of the mouthpiece matter still, just not so much the material.